[Evolution-users] Replying by selecting text not working anymore?

[Milan Crha]

On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 22:09 +0200, Paul Smith wrote:
> After more investigation I only see the problem when replying to EWS
> messages.  If I select in the IMAP or GMail accounts, it works OK (I
> used this method in this reply and it worked).

	Hi,
these things are not related to the account type, it's probably more
about the message format (plain text/HTML), both the replied to and the
composer, composer settings (Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences)
and account settings (signatures and other Composer settings for the
account itself). Maybe also what the default account is (is or is not
changed from the default account on reply).

The thing is, when a selection is recognized, the message body is cut
to contain only the selected portion of the text. It's done with
cooperation with the WebKitGTK. The 2.50.x series of the WebKitGTK
brought in some interesting changes, which broke Evolution (they
uncovered one problem I know of in Evolution). Try to run Evolution
from a terminal, whether it'll print anything there when the bad thing
happens. You can do it by:

   flatpak kill org.gnome.Evolution
   flatpak run org.gnome.Evolution

The "kill" is to make sure the "run" starts everything from scratch,
using the terminal it was called from, rather than running in an
existing sandbox instance, whose terminal is who-knows-where.

By the way, I use this "reply with selected text only" too, quite
often.

	Bye,
	Milan